Running v8.5.1 and was working yesterday, but as of this morning Microsoft has removed the Remote Agent app from the auto startup tab, so the Remote Agent app is no longer running.

Trying to manually start Remote Service fails with "Windows service start failure....not initialized.." Also The Remote Agent Installer is tagged with Virus Detected. Completely borked Awesome Miner

Thanks for the report.

Microsoft corrected one trojan alert in Windows Defender yesterday (June 6th). Unfortunately this turns out to be yet another incorrect detection so I've filed a new report to Microsoft about this case as well. I will keep you updated.

Update June 8th:
Microsoft has removed the incorrect detection.

To force an update of Windows Defender defitintions, please run the following via cmd.exe started with Administrator permissions.